Bob Miller wrote:

I have a low, 30 feet or so, 80 meter dipole fed with ladderline,
through an mfj 989c tuner. Hot humid clime (Texas). Is the ground wire
on the back of the tuner, going to a ground rod, enough to bleed off
electrical build up?

Almost anything is enough to do that. The charge rate is extremely low.


My 318 foot tall insulated tower had a measured charge rate in the
ten's of milliamperes as measured during approaching thunderstorms.

Of course taking care of a lightning bolt or EMP from a lightning
strike someplace around the area is another story.

73 Tom